Sarah & Duck is the new hit CBeebies show entertaining the children of the nation every weekday at 4pm. Music 4 Studios have worked with the production team on this show from the initial pilots through to the finished programmes, recording all the voices for Sarah & Duck and the theme tune too! Kids and adults alike are tuning in to watch Sarah and her best friend Duck take on the world!

We feel honoured to have seen this project grow from a humble idea to a full blown series on CBeebies.

We're always very proud of the long term relationships we build with our client stations and U105 in Northern Ireland is no exception. U105 ordered their first set of jingles from Music 4 back in November 2005. They have stood the test of time and remain on air alongside a 'new' package of cuts just delivered.

The recent additions include a full re-sing of the Wave 105 package from January 2010 plus re-sings of a number of jingles for the stations 'Golden Years' adapted from our fabulous Capital Gold package (originally created in May 2002!).

We always try our best to create jingles and logos that stand the test of time and we think U105 has chosen some excellent material from our back catalogue. We have worked hard with Maurice and the team at U105 to ensure they fit the stations output perfectly.

Not only is BBC Radio 1's Matt Fincham part of the award winning team behind The Chris Moyles Show, he is also a bit of a 'radio jingle anorak' so to help him celebrate his birthday today, we gave Matt a very special gift. Complete with full artwork by our very own in house designer Andre, Matt this morning received a CD full of our world famous Radio 1 '1tros' (the little sonic logos we create weekly for Radio 1). He also got his own special birthday jingle.

The whole thing happened live on air this morning, just after 9am and you can hear it by clicking here.

Somalian music sensation, K'Naan popped into the Music 4 studios on Tuesday to undertake a number of ISDN radio interviews. His song, Wavin' the Flag' (featuring another Music 4 regular Will.I.Am and David Guetta), has been number 1 in over 11 countries and is Coca Cola's world cup soundtrack.

K'Naan had just returned from the World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert held in Soweto, South Africa and was full of the football spirit.

Music 4 is one of the hottest destinations in London for pop stars undertaking ISDN (down the line) interviews. Star treatment, great studios. Happy pop stars!

US songstress Alicia Keys is apparently singing the praises of 'North Wales', a Chris Moyles Parody song recorded here at Music 4. The song, a parody of her hit with rapper Jay-Z, Empire State of Mind, is being played every day this week by Radio 1's Chris Moyles show in the run up to Radio 1's Big Weekend.

Instead of waxing lyrical over Brooklyn and Harlem, 'Keys' praises the delights of Conwy and Llandudno Junction.
But the show revealed: "It's a tongue-in-cheek tribute by a session singer."

See the full story on BBC NEWS or click 'go to project' below to hear a 30 second sample of the track.

Music 4 is starting 2010 with a bang thanks to a number of new music commissions including the latest themes for The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1. Recorded at our biggest ever session at Abbey Road Studio 1 with a full orchestra and then mixed and mastered here at Music 4 Studios, this is one BIG sounding package!

Click 'go to project' below to hear the results and
check out some photos from the recording session.

Also coming soon... new jingles for BBC London 94.9 and new packages for Wave 105 and Spin Southwest (Ireland).

'Never Gonna Snow' is one of several original tracks co-written and produced by the team here at Music 4 for 'Chris Moyles - The Parody Album'. To see the fantastic video for this track, click here.

This video has been airing on many TV music channels including 4Music, Viva and Magic TV.

The Parody Album has now gone 'Gold' selling well over 100,000 copies in just four weeks. The album is still available in stores or on iTunes. If you get the album on iTunes, you also get a full length 'making of the album' video too!.

For the past six weeks, Music 4's MD Sandy Beech has been locked in the studio working on the forthcoming album from Chris Moyles. Chris Moyles - The Parody Album will be released on Sony Records on the 23rd of November but is available to pre-order now from HMV, Amazon or Play for delivery on the day of release.

Sandy believes people are going to really enjoy this album.

"Chris and I have worked very hard to rework the most popular parody songs played out on his Radio 1 show and take them to a whole new level. Every track has been recorded from scratch and several tracks feature guest appearances from the likes of Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs), Calvin Harris and more. In addition, we've written a number of brand new tracks including the very catchy 'It's Never Gonna Snow At Christmas' which should get everyone in a festive mood! Whether you are familiar with Chris's parody songs or not, this album will make you laugh out loud"

Chris Moyles - The Parody Album was produced by Sandy Beech and Chris Moyles, recorded, mixed and mastered here at Music 4 Studios with additional recording undertaken at Abbey Road Studios.

We have recently completed the full audio mix (voice record, sound design and audio dub) for a new series for Cartoonito which is the pre-school sister channel to Cartoon Network.

"Go And..." is a 26 x 11' Live action and animation activity-based series hosted by the 6 Cartoonito characters: Lolly, Ringo, Bubble, Spike, Cuba and Ting. Children are inspired to Go And...find out about the world around them in 6 different ways: Explore, Learn, Make, Play, Be, Sing & Dance.

On Monday September the 7th 2009, Chris Moyles became Radio 1's longest ever serving breakfast show host, beating the record previously held by Tony Blackburn (Radio 1's first ever breakfast show presenter) since Tony came off the breakfast show on the 1st of June 1974. The team here at Music 4 are extremely proud to have been with Chris every step of the way on this massive journey as the creators and producers of the shows now famous on-air branding, jingles and beds.

Over the past five years we have produced hundreds of jingles and beds for the show including the legendary 'opening song' which launched Chris onto the Radio 1 Breakfast Show in January 2004.

We remain pretty certain that the 'opening song' is the longest 'jingle' ever to be actually broadcast in full on the radio and to celebrate Chris's record breaking show the whole thing was played again (with a few changes here and there).

Non-Stop Music, one of the music industry's leading production music companies and a division of Warner/Chappell Music, today announced the acquisition of the entire catalog of V-The Production Library. The deal gives the Emmy award-winning Non-Stop Music worldwide publishing rights and expands the role as North American publisher for the catalog it has served since 2004.
As part of the agreement, Music 4's team of producers and composers will continue to create library content that will be owned, exclusively marketed and distributed by Non-Stop Music.

In making the announcement, Randy Thornton, CEO, Non-Stop Music said, "V-The Production Library is known worldwide for its impressive music catalog and its influence on some of the most successful shows coming out of the UK today. With this catalog acquisition we are adding a rich new library of music to our already deep selection, including music for highly targeted niche genres as well more mainstream, contemporary tracks. We are confident that the addition of the V library will further strengthen our international presence by giving our affiliates a much broader and deeper range of music offering to exploit around the world."

V – The Production Library was created, composed and produced by Music 4, one of London’s leading music and audio production companies. In making the announcement, Music 4’s Managing Director, Sandy Beech said, “I am delighted to see ‘V’ become part of the Non Stop Music family. Not only is V – The Production Library in the best possible hands to move forward and grow as part of a wider offering from Non Stop Music but the team here at Music 4 can now fully focus on the creation of brand new, standout tracks for the library over the coming months and years”.

The V-The Production Library catalog will be fully integrated into CUEgle.com, Non-Stop Music’s online music search tool, which provides access to Non-Stop’s extensive production music library of more than 35,000 music cues.

Music 4 have just completed themes and stagers for ITV1's 'Alan Titchmarsh At Christmas' airing on ITV1, Sunday 21 December at 6.30pm. You'll also hear our arrangement of the 'It'll Be All Right On The Night' theme created earlier this year when the famous 'cock-up' show returns to ITV1 on Christmas Day at 9pm. All the themes were mixed and mastered at Music 4 Studios.
Alan Titchmarsh presents a show packed with festive fun as well as delivering a stocking full of Christmas surprises to some deserving members of the public, he's joined by a host of stars, including special guests Julie Walters, Will Young and Emma Bunton who delivers an unforgettable Christmas gift to one lucky viewer.

This latest commission from Spungold for ITV1 continues our relationship with Alan Titchmarsh as Music 4 also composed the theme tune for his regular daytime show.

Don't worry...we haven't started flogging DVD's but we can highly recommend Faithless Live in Moscow, Bill Bailey's Tinselworm and Tim Minchin’s “So F**king Rock Live”... not only are they all fab, they were all mixed by Music 4 Studios! Faithless returned to Russia after a 4 year hiatus to perform for the 1st time with a full orchestra. We received the multi-track recordings which includes famous hits such as Insomnia, God is a DJ, Mass Destruction, I Want More and We Come 1 and created the final mix for the 5.1 DVD release, “Faithless Live in Moscow”. Sister Bliss from the band attended many of the mixing sessions and was delighted with the results.

Bill Bailey's 'Tinselworm' was the inaugural 5.1 project mixed in our newest studio (Studio 2) and this was quickly followed by a 5.1 mix for Australian musician, actor, comedian and writer Tim Minchin for his latest DVD release, “So F**king Rock Live”. We also created the stereo mix for international television broadcast.

(Be warned...the Tim Minchin DVD contains very strong language and is not for the easily offended!)

As always, the music team here at Music 4 have been busy composing and creating world class jingles and themes for stations both here in the UK and over in Dublin and we've recently uploaded audio for the following stations...

Music 4's brand new studio (Studio 2) has completed its inaugural project for top comedian Bill Bailey creating a 5.1 and stereo mix for his forthcoming live DVD "Tinselworm"...
The UK leg of Bill's tour enjoyed 3 sell-out nights at the MEN Arena in Manchester, Europe's largest indoor arena and culminated with a sell-out performance at Wembley Arena which is featured in this DVD.

Bill Bailey is a comedian, musician and actor most well known for live shows Bewilderness and Part Troll, and his work on television in programmes such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Black Books.

The project was easily handled by the new studio and took full advantage of our brand new SSL AWS900+ mixing console and TC M6000 5.1 mastering system.

The nominations for the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards were announced last night. Our work for Magic 105.4 in London played a sizeable role in the stations successful nomintion in The Station Imaging Award. Many other Music 4 clients had good news too. Three out of the five shows nominated for Best Breakfast Show are branded by Music 4 (Chris Moyles-Radio 1, Johnny Vaughn-Captial 95.8 and Jo & Twiggy-Trent FM).

Radio City, Radio 1, BBC7 and Virgin Radio also picked up nominations too. Good luck to all at the awards on 12th of May 2008.